On the financial front, my 4 year Penfed CD @6.00% APY from September 2007 is due at the end of the month. I'll put $5k of that toward some Series I savings bonds at treasurydirect.gov, while a quite a bit more of that cash will be put toward paying the final tuition bill for Mrs. Frugalson's graduate school education (yay!) as well as the down payment for braces for the eldest of the Frugalson offspring (ouch!). Perhaps I'll take the left over cash and à la Trading Places, maybe I'll go to the movies... by myself. :D

And finally, a bit of thanks to Hurricane Irene for not flooding or causing our property a bunch of damage. Despite that, we were without power for 50+ hours and even that modest outage has motivated me to research a portable generator purchase. At least the next time we have an extended power outage, we will hopefully have running water and heat (for winter storms), and not have to throw away the contents of our fridge and basement freezer. Zut alors!